A decade ago, in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi, then still the Chief Minister of Gujarat, famously ...

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Appa had some qualities no one else had. He loved novelty, he had no inhibitions, he would try anything, unafraid of defeat. Above all, he lived for himself and not for others.

Somewhat ironically, while Gulbadan’s memoir provides an unusual glimpse into the private world of the Mughals, the woman ...

Public art practises democracy by splitting the gaze, centring not a person but a people. Cutting across the humid seaside ...

Rich with research and replete with anecdotes, Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book on Rajiv Gandhi is an excellent contribution to ...

Kashmir’s famed saffron fields are weathering everything from a prolonged dry spell to rodents, cement dust to the influx of ...

Superbly written and persuasively argued, Tom Stevenson’s book ‘Someone Else’s Empire’ reads like a primer on the operation ...